brooding - Story 17707 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The sterile white walls of the office seemed to close in on him, suffocating. He stared out the window, the city a distant blur, unable to feel connected to anything. He was the only one in the office.

Then, the door opened. "Hi, I'm here to finish the project with you." Sarah said, with a smile. "Oh, I was just looking at the photos of Camp Sunshine."

His gaze dropped to his hands. He clasped them together, hiding his trembling fingers. He wished he could disappear.

"You wouldn't have gone there, would you?" she asked.

He clenched his jaw, the muscle in his face rigid. "Yes." He forced the word out. He turned and faced the window.

Emotion: brooding

Cluster: Sadness / Despair

PC1 (Valence): -2.46 Negative

PC2 (Disposition): -0.60

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion brooding. During extraction, it was fed through Gemma4-31B and its hidden state activations were captured at 11 layers.

The mean activation across all 1,000 brooding stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the brooding emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the brooding vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:

`S`	0.749
`😞`	0.329
`그의`	0.299
`un`	0.273
`但他`	0.270

Suppressed:

`de`	-0.917
`la`	-0.603
`a`	-0.369
`l`	-0.335
`her`	-0.330